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Premium Poker Content Service Now Available

Randy Ray — Mon, 09 May 2011 16:00:55 +0000

I’ve decided to offer premium poker content on a limited basis. This is a reaction to recent Google updates aimed at content farms. (The Panda updates.) Many poker webmasters are using the same poker writers and writing companies. They wind up publishing the same poker content on their sites that everyone else offers. As Google continues to separate the high quality content from low quality ...

Poker Webmaster Questions, Answers, and How To’s

Randy Ray — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:33:22 +0000

Over the course of the previous year, a lot of cool search queries have brought visitors to my poker SEO blog. Here are some answers to some poker webmaster questions that might not have been fully answered in some of my previous posts: How to Make a Poker Website Most of how to make a poker website depends on what kind of poker website you want to make. If you want to launch an online cardroom, I...

How to Comment on Poker Blog Posts

Randy Ray — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:02:04 +0000

How to Comment on Poker Blog Posts (and Why) If you’ve read any of the content on this site, you’ll understand instantly that I’m not going to write a long, detailed blog post about how to spam blog comments across the poker blogosphere in the hopes of getting better search engine rankings for the phrase “online poker.” But legitimate reasons for commenting on poker b...

How to Write Unique Poker Content

Randy Ray — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:56:49 +0000

How to Write Unique Poker Content Unique poker content has always been an interest of mine. It’s common knowledge that I was a DMOZ editor for a long time, and one of the first requirements for a listing in DMOZ is to offer unique content to your site’s visitors. No unique content–no listing. But poker webmasters were constantly confused about why their poker content wasn’t...

What’s A Good Conversion Rate For Gambling Websites?

Randy Ray — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:27:52 +0000

A common question on gambling affiliate forums is, “What is a good conversion rate for gambling websites?” New affiliates, trying to gauge how much traffic they need to generate a target revenue every month, usually ask this. It’s a valid question, but it has no real answer. Factors That Affect Conversion Rates on Gambling Websites Your conversion rate depends on multiple facto...

Redesigning a Sports Betting Site

Randy Ray — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:11:26 +0000

Written by Dealer Dan Disheartened by the lack of regular content on here lately, I decided to write a new article for Randy’s awesome Poker SEO Blog to hopefully inspire him to get back into writing again. I’m sure Randy knows full well that from a writer’s point of view, when you stop updating a website it can be hard to start updating it again. I’ve been in that situ...

Poker SEO Cliches and Poker Link Building Cliches

Randy Ray — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:49:35 +0000

Here’s a random list of cliches along with some thoughts on how they apply to the poker SEO and poker link building life. There might be something useful hidden in here. But some of this is just pure observation. Good things come to those who wait. This isn’t true in poker SEO. When doing search engine optimization on a poker site, good things come to those who create great poker cont...

The Only SEO Advice You Really Need

Randy Ray — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:22:57 +0000

I read a great post from Michael Martinez at his Best SEO Blog yesterday, and I thought I’d share it here. The post is called The Best Blog SEO Strategy. His mime metaphor is cute, but the real gold comes later in the post, and it’s literally the only SEO advice you really need: “The Best Blog SEO Strategy is to use the blog daily, work it, treat it like it’s the meaning of...

Why Content is King

Randy Ray — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:19:44 +0000

Why Content is King Before you bash your head against the keyboard in exasperation at stumbling across yet another “content is king” article, give me a few seconds to convince you this one is worth your time. If you read what I have to say and apply these principles to your own efforts, your websites will be more successful and you’ll make more money. Instead of just yammering “content is ...

Think Ahead of the Box for Super Affiliation

Randy Ray — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:58:57 +0000

Think Ahead of the Box for Super Affiliation I actually wrote a similar type post on my own website but deleted it after being cussed out for giving away too much information. It was actually quite ironic because the post was information I had given to that particular affiliate. It goes to show it’s hard to find sincere people in the gambling industry, thus why I try to stay to myself these da...